Watermelon cocktail

8 servings
15 min

How to make a watermelon cocktail? Prepare the ingredients. Choose ripe watermelon. How to choose a watermelon? Ripe watermelon usually has a dry ponytail, a yellow-brown earthen spot and a dull sound when tapping. From a green watermelon, the drink will turn out to be tasteless. Sugar can be taken white or brown. Lemon choose bright yellow without stains or damage. Take the purified water. Ice can be prepared in advance from clean water. Mint is suitable for lemon or peppermint.

Wash the watermelon well with soap and a soft brush to wash away dirt and germs. Wash the lemon with soap and brush, and throw boiling water to wash off the wax coating, which is usually used to treat citrus fruits.

Cut the watermelon and release from the crusts. We will only need flesh.

Cut the pulp of the watermelon into pieces, removing the seeds. If the seeds get into the blender, the cocktail's taste can be spoiled.

When preparing the ingredients, do not forget to remove the zest from the lemon, we will not need it. It can be used in other dishes. Peel the lemon it white skins and seeds, or they will give bitterness to the dish. Cut the lemon into circles.

Put the lemon circles in the blender bowl.

Add half the sugar to the lemon.

Next, lay out the watermelon pulp and sprinkle with the leftover sugar. Sugars may need more or less as watermelons have different degrees of saccharinity and lemons may be more or less acidic. Focus on your taste.

Whisk the watermelon pieces, lemon and sugar in a blender until gruel-like. It will take no more than a minute. But focus on your technique, you may need more time.

Pour the prepared water into the fruit mass. Water must be purified. If you take tap water, the taste of the drink can become unpleasant.

Whisk the cocktail again in a blender. Pink foam will appear, which means that the ingredients have mixed well.

Strain the mass through a fine sieve or gauze. The strained drink is easier and more pleasant to drink. But if you like a pulp cocktail, you can keep it.

Pour the finished cocktail over high glasses. They are comfortable to hold and drink through the cocktail tube.

Add ice cubes to the drink to cool and taste more enjoyable. If the watermelon was previously cooled, then ice can not be added. Or cool the finished drink in the refrigerator.

Garnish the cocktail with slices of fruit and sprigs of mint. Serve the chilled cocktail to the table. Enjoy your meal!